May has been an odd month. I ended one of my day job contracts this month to have more time for writing, reading, podcasting, and publishing then promptly took a week of vacation to spend with my bonus daughter while she was visiting us in California. My son and his...
Penny Billington I have a delightful conversation about druidry and being in relationship with trees. Nine Ways to Charm a Dryad: A Magical Adventure to Connect with the Spirit of Trees is available anywhere books are sold of direct from Llewellyn You can learn more...
Don Martin and I talk about writing the outline of a book he thought no one would want to publish over the course of over ten years of podcasting as Fire Lyte and the tiniest bit of tea is spilled. The Dabbler’s Guide to Witchcraft is available anywhere books are sold...
New York Times best-selling author Lana Harper and I talked writing escapist stories, transitioning from writing YA to adult fiction, and why witches continue to be hot in fiction and popular culture. We also talked about hitting that bestseller list and why it was a...
Kelden and I talk about research deep dives into the often unpleasant realities of witch trial transcripts, witchcraft scholarship, and switching it up between fiction and nonfiction writing. Show Notes You can order The Witches’ Sabbath and his first book The Crooked...
Before the pandemic, I'm guessing I averaged fifteen to twenty books a year with lots of magazines and "long reads" from different periodicals thrown in. I, like a lot of folks, read more during the pandemic and then cranked up my reading at the end of last year to...
Jason Mankey and I joke about making it big writing the next hot YA blockbuster series, what it’s really like to write witchcraft books full time, and looking forward to festivals and conventions returning. Show Notes You can order The Witch’s Book of Spellcraft and...
WitchLit Pod goes weekly! This is Victoria dropping into your feed to give you a quick update. The response from writers has been wonderful and we’ve got so many great interviews to share with you that we’re bumping up to a weekly schedule. Starting next week, April...
Artist and author Lulu M. Sylvian writes fun, steamy romance filled with wolves, vampires, witches, and ghosts. We chat about coming to writing from an usual starting point and how maybe writing sex scenes in public or with your family watching TV nearby is maybe not...
With the podcast going like gangbusters, I've had to up my reading game to keep up the interviews. I'm also in three bookclubs and sometimes I just like to read stuff for my own edification or just for fun. So here's the reading from March with some commentary from...